Huggins and fellow Party leader Bunchy Carter were gunned down by members of the black nationalist US Organization during a 1969 meeting at UCLA. An FBI memo dated November 29, 1968 described a letter that the Los Angeles FBI office intended to mail to the Black Panther Party office. This letter, which was made to appear as if it had come from the US Organization, described fictitious plans by US to ambush BPP members. The FBI memo stated that "It is hoped this counterintelligence measure will result in an 'US' and BPP vendetta."[2]